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Imphal, Iril rivers face early arid condition
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Nomita Khongbantabam
Imphal, March 16 2015:
State's PHED is trying to find out the exact cause of the current arid condition of Imphal and Iril rivers while appealing to the people to help the department in preserving water.
Talking to Hueiyen Lanpao on Monday, PHED Chief Engineer Haobam Sunil said "The Imphal and Iril rivers have now experienced an early desiccated condition this season.
An expert team of PHED has started conducting investigation into it" .
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He said the State Government is planning to provide safe drinking water to every household by 2019 under the Swacch Bharat Mission.
He said water supply schemes will be taken up in every nook and corner of the State under the mission.
He added that sanitary latrines will also be constructed for every households of the State.
Sunil, however, admitted that the State has been witnessing a rising shortage of water and attributed the cause to massive deforestation especially in the hill areas.
"We need concerted effort to stop this from happening," he urged.
The Chief Engineer said global warming and climate change have hit hard on water cycle and at the same time deforestation has done immense destruction to raw water.
He said, "We know that we get water from lakes and rivers which originate from the hills and so the hill people must first identify the fact.
Sunil further expressed concern about the increasing use of plastic bottles by public and appealed to Imphal city residents not to throw used plastics into the rivers flowing through the area in order to make the water usable without end.
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